Meanwhile, there are claims that the vote for Evangelicals to endorse Santorum as their chosen candidate to defeat Mormon Mitt Romney for the presidential bid was rigged, and that they really want the other Catholic, Newt Gingrich, instead.

Does your head feel like it is spinning yet?

For more lighthearted political reading, we asked our readers to rate the performance of the current president and to give us their thoughts on the presidency, and we've posted a sampling of some of the nearly 700 responses we received. Our readers were particularly creative when asked who they'd like to see as U.S. president, naming everyone from Pope Benedict and Father Robert Barron to Bill Gates and Jon Stewart.

Finally, cardinal-designate Archbishop Timothy Dolan has been in the news a lot of late (and is apparently a big enough celebrity in New York to make it into the Daily News' gossip pages for going on a diet). On Sunday, Dolan got people's attention by starting his homily with these words: "I'm going to preach about sex." And he did. Maybe next time he should advertise that in advance.